"China just won the reversed opium wars. [Insert based Xi meme]" lemmy.ml/post/38966412 Amusing Ourselves to Death much? Neil Postman was even more on point than he could ever imagine, sadly.

Walk in your (remote) directories video.benetou.fr/w/rHZTnX5MnH... and manipulate, with your hands, your files.

"the biggest free-riders are the largest corporations in the history of our world. That's why our commons have to be actively protected and managed."

Anybody using WebViews on desktops? What if instead of using a single Web browser aggregating tabs and windows but being unmanageable from the rest of your composable UNIX philosophy tools, you took each page as just content you can manipulate as you always did?

Morning geography.

Where am I... #WebXR #OSM

I don't know if it's because I'm following @uploadvr.com but between Steam Frame, Samsung Galaxy XR, Vision Pro M5 and last but not least a proper MR/XR/AR game, namely @laserdancegame.bsky.social it feels like a LOT of XR related news recently!

FWIW the Valve Steam Frame is also a harsh reminder to startups or small team projects (thinking here about Lynx XR1 vs Meta Quest Pro) that they might have speed, momentum, capability... but if they can't ship, for whatever reason (including external), they don't exist. So... yeah simulavr.com ?🤷‍♂️

Prototyping.

I guess the biggest question following this Steam Frame announcement is... what changes upstream on @kde.org in terms of immersive UX? Is KDE Plasma becoming a VR graphical shell? Does it have 3D widgets? Does it impact freedesktop? 🤔

"Many journalists found themselves in awe when trying Half-Life: Alyx on this device and described it as almost as crisp as on a PCVR headset." ... I did that (not crisp, I admit) in 2020 (video in link) twitter-archive.benetou.fr/utopiah/stat... so if that's key then, again, not excited.🙄

Well shit... I've been saying for years that I'd "throw my money" at any hardware Valve would sell but now I have to admit none of that looks appealing : - no hand tracking - no color passthrough - no hardware upgrade - no WebXR - no new VR proper content www.uploadvr.com/valve-isnt-c... ...why?🤷‍♂️

"my specific disciplines of AI and marketing" ... so a professional b̵u̵l̵l̵s̵h̵i̵t̵t̵e̵r̵ provocateur. With a panel. This is rage bait right? Right?!

"I’ve never seen anybody use a GUI in a clever way. Ever. There’s no cleverness to it. No, like, Oh my God, you should see the way Adam clicked that mouse." from corecursive.com/building-pow... via medium.com/@sebastianca...

Morning idea : crowdsource video diff. Propose video cuts (timing to remove, add filters with a standard, e.g. ffmpeg, etc) a la @sponsor.ajay.app but for ANY video, not just YouTube streaming? Triggering content and product placement be gone!

"I tried a weird way of woodworking" (namely AR/MR) by The Swedish Maker www.youtube.com/watch?v=qp9U... February 2025

Interesting article but not "1st gen" as shared quite a few times already Google Glass, Vuzix Blade and quite a few more were perfectly functional years ago.

This "Brussels knifes privacy to feed the AI boom" is yet another glaring example of the danger of AI. It's not about machine enslaving us. It's not about super intelligence. It's not even about intelligence. It's just about data. Again. www.politico.eu/article/brus...

Marble Madness XR?

Self-hosters help request framacolibri.org/t/docker-mig... I don’t actually understand and listed quite a few possibilities so at this point, any idea welcomed!

Every crowd source success is a public infrastructure failure.

Every time you trust BigTech, you are giving up on : - imagination (they direct the narrative) - startups (no funding) - agency (you don't build, you wait) ...all that for what? Nothing, absolutely nothing beside cool looking videos and, more importantly, giving THEM power. Merged reality my ass.

Proper use of XR, not yet another flat overlay but instead a (super fun) immersive experience leveraging YOUR space 👌

Had a peak being the curtain during Alpha and it is by far my favourite XR game of the year! Can’t wait to try the release version!

Just had to basically dodge a Tesla while I crossed normally (walking) with perfect visibility (no tree or anything obscuring the crossing) on zebras. If you somehow promote assisted driving cars as less dangerous... consider putting your own life at risk, not that of others. Fuck cars.🤬

We're #hiring a new Head of the Sovereign Tech Fund! 🚀 The #SovereignTechFund is the flagship program of the Sovereign Tech Agency. Since 2022, we've invested in critical #opensource infrastructure—from curl to FreeBSD to technologies like DNS powering the web—to strengthen #digitalsovereignty. 1/3

@edzitron.com cool episode on vibe coding (which I enjoy calling "vile coding") but as a professional prototypist : no, it's ALSO bad for prototyping! People often think of prototypes as low effort run once piece of code (as Charlie Meyer said) ... but that's the "easy" part of prototyping. The...

"99.5% decline in 45 years. Moore’s Law except for sunshine." climatedrift.substack.com/p/why-solarp... in "Why Solarpunk is already happening in Africa Or: How Africa is building the future by skipping the past" by Skander Garroum

Incredibly good presentation of humanity's largest existential threat, capture by the would be vicious e1 global elite barbarian class (there citing church's 3 ladder system). www.authoritarian-stack.info

🎧 "Le bon sens" by Alba on @bandcamp.com via @fip.fr bonjouralba.bandcamp.com/track/le-bon...

Walk into a color space video.benetou.fr/w/rugsEB2sSb...

"Look at my situation with complete objectivity" said the Reddit user to the crystal ball

If you think the AI bubble / NVIDIA state is "too big to fail" remember the subprime financial crisis, it was not even 20 years ago and assets then were, arguably, very safe as it was basically U.S. real estate, in theory.

🎧 🌊 Viens Danser (Voilaaa Remix) in Onda Remix by João Selva joaoselva.bandcamp.com/track/viens-... on @bandcamp.com

#alt.vis now altvis.github.io half-day workshop at IEEE VIS 2025

I recognize that I have very few followers on this app, but if any of you feel like Reposting, I am stressed as hell about selling tickets to my upcoming solo show, The Harmnf. So here is a discount code and a link for more info - code TOBACCO for 15% off! Love yoooou! caveat.nyc/events/the-h...

Hi, we're Silicon Valley- you probably recognize us from classic inventions like 'Chatbot That Drives You Crazy', 'The App That Gives You An Eating Disorder', 'A Bus, Except Worse', and 'Doorbell That Reports Directly to the NSA'

Why you keep hearing about "AI" daily : lemmy.world/post/3812486... It's not because it's good, or bad, or trendy... it's because the people who invested hundreds of billions in it for years now still do NOT know what it is good for! They are STILL searching for a product/market fit.

Another good thing fucked by LLMs/GenAI : blog.arxiv.org/2025/10/31/a... ... but you know maybe "it" will "invent" a magical technology that will solve global warming or poverty or whatever, so it might be worth it! /s

Using the command-line is not for everyone. Sometimes people do not feel comfortable with it... but did you know you can conveniently wrap the command-line with a visual interface? 1-liner e.g. : degourou -f $(kdialog --getopenfilename ~/Downloads/ "*.acsm" ) Via develop.kde.org/docs/adminis...

I mean yes, obviously AI/ASI/AGI is a bubble (and yes, public research in AI is still useful, like CV for a11y) and yes it will bring the US and the World economy to its knees... but come on it's just the 5th "once in lifetime crisis" we are living through together! Smile a bit!

so @matteowong.bsky.social & I wrote on data centers: arguably the most important buildings in the world & are, in a way, holding the economy hostage. Byzantine financial instruments, private equity, depreciating tech, hype, $trillion valuations. it’s all there. an ai crash prob starts here.

Solo VR as events in dedicated locations highlights a problem when HMDs are basically the price of few restaurant meals.

“Historically, the most terrible things - war, genocide, and slavery - have resulted not from disobedience, but from obedience.” - Howard Zinn

I should stop posting while watching that video... what the fuck does that mean "Neo will not be able to pick up something that's very heavy or very sharp" ... like ... I just can't begin to explain that's totally impossible. Triggers me so bad. Instead read fabien.benetou.fr/ReadingNotes...

So... I work in XR and I'm not a robotic expert. This part is fascinating to me : teleoperator controls the robot with... a controller, not hands. Controllers are nice, 6DoF & precise ... but because I do work on hand tracking I can safely say it's way WAY richer than... a claw. So that opens...

Video is hilarious. Yes, I didn't want one bsky.app/profile/bene... but I'd still benchmark it at home. With such a video though... I don't think anyone at home would let me even try. It's just... silly.

The future is AI. Cartoon for @trouw.nl: www.trouw.nl/cartoons/tje... #artificialintelligence #fake #reality #dystopia #AI

Demolition of democracy. #Trump #justice #truth #democracy